Making monsters : the uncanny power of dehumanization /
David Livingstone Smith
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Omfang | xvi, 329 sider
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| Opplysninger | Preface: Something like a darkness -- What is dehumanization? -- Dehumanization is real -- In the blood -- Essential differences -- The logic of race -- Hierarchy -- The order of things -- Being human -- Ideology -- Dehumanization as ideology -- Ambivalence -- Making monsters -- Last words and loose ends.. - "Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual dehumanization happens in our minds. The process is deeply seated in our psychology, and it is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to it"--
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| ISBN | 9780674545564
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